POLICE HELP DRIVER, FIND LOAD OF COCAINE

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

When police stopped to assist the driver of a stalled car Tuesday they discovered 150 kilograms of cocaine in the back seat and trunk, a police spokesman said.

The driver, Bartolo Lucatero, 19, of the 2300 block of South Central Park Avenue, was arrested shortly after 1 p.m. in the 6000 block of South Cicero Avenue, where his 1992 Mercury Cougar had stalled in traffic, according to Chicago police spokesman Pat Camden.

Gang crimes officers had stopped to render aid and as they stood beside Lucatero's car, they asked him what was in two large garbage bags in the back, Camden said. Lucatero allegedly replied "cocaine," and was taken into custody, Camden said.

Police said they found 50 kilos of cocaine in the bags and 100 kilos in the trunk.